Richard Wagner - Der fliegende Holländer - Estes, Salminen - Nelsson 1985DVD9 - NTSC - 4:3 - All Regions - German - PCM, DTS - - 135min.
Subtitles: German/English/French/Spanish/Chinese
Deutsche Grammophon 2005 - 073 4041 7
Simon Estes · Matti Salminen · Lisbeth Balslev · Robert Schunk · Anny Schlemm
Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Woldemar Nelsson
Directed by Harry Kupfer
Woldemar Nelsson conducts idiomatically, with the third act in particular a dramatic juggernaut. The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra is superb, as is the chorus . . . the sonics are robust, with good orchestral weight. The camera work is well-done . . . Record Review / Andrew Quint, Fanfare (Tenafly, NJ) / 01. January 2006
. . . very few DVDs convey better the brilliance of Bayreuth and the depth of the work achieved in its special festival conditions . . . his production remains unsurpassed among "Holländers" I know. Not only brilliant theatre, it makes brilliant film too . . . the whole production could almost have been made for film, so vividly do the images . . . transfer to the screen . . . Kupfer's domestic twist invests the whole work with an Ibsenesque quality -- and there can be no higher praise than that. Balslev's Senta is surrounded by a superb cast. Record Review / John Allison, Opera (London) / 01. October 2007
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